IMPORTANT NOTES ON WRITING YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE
The Final page in your paper will be the Works Cited page. At the top of this page, type and center “Works Cited” (do not put it in quotations, bold type, or italics). This whole page will be double spaced. Immediately following the title of the page, begin listing your sources alphabetically by the author’s last name. If there is no author, alphabetize according to the first word in that particular entry. The first line of the entry will be aligned at the left. If an entry is more than one line, every line after the first should be indented. The information you will need should be found on the first few pages of the book. If it is an article, all the information should be found in the index or at the beginning or end of the article. When information is missing simply omit it from the entry.
Information to include For the average book: author(s), book title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication For the average article: author(s), article title, magazine/journal/reference work title, volume number, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, article’s pages
The following are examples of the many possible entries you will have to make. As you can see, there are specific guidelines for almost every situation. Pay close attention to punctuation, underlining, italics, and spacing.
Book by one author
Thomas, Lewis. Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. New York: Viking, 1974.
Book by two or three authors
Fulwiler, Toby, and Alan R. Hayakawa. The Blair Handbook. Boston: Blair-Prentice, 1994.
Book by more than three authors
Britton, James, et al. The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18). London: Macmillan Education, 1975.
Revised edition of a book
Hayakawa, S. I. Language in Thought and Action. 4th ed. New York: Harcourt, 1978.
Book with an editor or editors
Hoy, Pat C., Esther H. Shor, and Robert DiYanni, eds. Women’s Voices: Visions and Perspectives. New York: McGraw, 1990.
Book with an editor and an author
Britton, James. Prospect and Retrospect. Ed. Gordon Pradl. Upper Montclair: Boynton, 1982.
Translated book
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: Random, 1946.
Introduction, preface, foreword, or afterword in a book (always receives a separate entry if used)
Holroyd, Michael. Preface. The Naked Civil Servant. By Quentin Crisp. New York: Plume-NAL, 1983. ii-v.
Article in a reference book with no specified author
“Behn, Aphra.” The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. 1983 ed. 22-30.
Article in a reference book with an author
Miller, Peter L. “The Power of Flight.” The Encyclopedia of Insects. Ed. Christopher O’Toole. New York: Facts on File, 1986. 18-19.
Article, story, or poem in a weekly magazine (if monthly, just write the month only)
Linn, Robert L., and Stephen Dunbar. “The Nation’s Report Card Goes Home.” Phi Delta Kappan 15 Oct. 1990: 127-43.
Article in a journal paginated by volume
Harris, Joseph. “The Other Reader.” Journal of Advanced Composition 12 (1992): 34-36.
INTERNET SOURCES: For internet sources, get as much information as you can. In most cases, you will only have the title of the site, section focused upon, date you visited it, and the web address
Information to include
Sponsor’s name, page or section number, date that you visited the site, address.
The Final page in your paper will be the Works Cited page. At the top of this page, type and center “Works Cited” (do not put it in quotations, bold type, or italics). This whole page will be double spaced. Immediately following the title of the page, begin listing your sources alphabetically by the author’s last name. If there is no author, alphabetize according to the first word in that particular entry. The first line of the entry will be aligned at the left. If an entry is more than one line, every line after the first should be indented. The information you will need should be found on the first few pages of the book. If it is an article, all the information should be found in the index or at the beginning or end of the article. When information is missing simply omit it from the entry.
Information to include
For the average book: author(s), book title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication
For the average article: author(s), article title, magazine/journal/reference work title, volume number, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, article’s pages
The following are examples of the many possible entries you will have to make. As you can see, there are specific guidelines for almost every situation. Pay close attention to punctuation, underlining, italics, and spacing.
Book by one author
Thomas, Lewis. Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. New York: Viking, 1974.
Book by two or three authors
Fulwiler, Toby, and Alan R. Hayakawa. The Blair Handbook. Boston: Blair-Prentice, 1994.
Book by more than three authors
Britton, James, et al. The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18). London: Macmillan Education, 1975.
Revised edition of a book
Hayakawa, S. I. Language in Thought and Action. 4th ed. New York: Harcourt, 1978.
Book with an editor or editors
Hoy, Pat C., Esther H. Shor, and Robert DiYanni, eds. Women’s Voices: Visions and Perspectives. New York: McGraw, 1990.
Book with an editor and an author
Britton, James. Prospect and Retrospect. Ed. Gordon Pradl. Upper Montclair: Boynton, 1982.
Translated book
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: Random, 1946.
Introduction, preface, foreword, or afterword in a book (always receives a separate entry if used)
Holroyd, Michael. Preface. The Naked Civil Servant. By Quentin Crisp. New York: Plume-NAL, 1983. ii-v.
Article in a reference book with no specified author
“Behn, Aphra.” The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. 1983 ed. 22-30.
Article in a reference book with an author
Miller, Peter L. “The Power of Flight.” The Encyclopedia of Insects. Ed. Christopher O’Toole. New York: Facts on File, 1986. 18-19.
Article, story, or poem in a weekly magazine (if monthly, just write the month only)
Linn, Robert L., and Stephen Dunbar. “The Nation’s Report Card Goes Home.” Phi Delta Kappan 15 Oct. 1990: 127-43.
Article in a journal paginated by volume
Harris, Joseph. “The Other Reader.” Journal of Advanced Composition 12 (1992): 34-36.
INTERNET SOURCES: For internet sources, get as much information as you can. In most cases, you will only have the title of the site, section focused upon, date you visited it, and the web address
Information to include
Sponsor’s name, page or section number, date that you visited the site, address.
Personal or Professional site
Fulwiler, Anna. Home page. 1 Feb. 1992 <http://www.uvm.edu/~afulwile>.
Site where the author and creation date are concealed
Psychological Studies in Children. 1 March 2001 <http://www.psychostudy.uofp.edu>Book
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Internet Wiretap online Library. Carnegie-MellonU. 4 Mar. 1998 <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/rgs/sawr-table.html>.
Poem
Poe, Edgar Allen. “The Raven.” American Review, 1845. Poetry Archives, 8 Mar. 1998. <http://tqd.advanced.org/3247/edgar&poem.html>.
Article in a reference database
“Victorian.” Britannica Online. Vers. 97.1.1 Mar. 1997. Encyclopedia Britannica. 2 Mar. 1988 <http://www.eb.com:180>.